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100			_aChopra, Sanjeev
245			_aThe great conciliator : Lal Bahadur Shastri and the transformation of India
260			_aNew Delhi: _bBloomsbury India, _c2025.
300			_axviii, 369p., note., bib., ind., 24 cm X 16 cm
500			_aRecommended by: Rasananda Panda
520			_aSummary:Lal Bahadur Shastri, a man of slight stature, took a larger-than-life stand as India's prime minister. A man of few words, his correspondence was to the point, his speeches succinct. His silence, which some understood as willingness to acquiesce, was both a strength and a weakness. But in fact, during his short term of just about eighteen months, he established institutions that brought India on the path of self-sufficiency and helped defend against external aggression. Prime Minister Shastri galvanized the nation with his slogan 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan', recognizing the farmers for contributing to both food and national security. He is credited with laying the foundation of the Green Revolution, providing an institutional format to the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices and the Food Corporation of India, and establishing the National Dairy Development Board. Shastri is also strongly etched in public memory as the first Indian prime minister to direct the army to cross the border. To his leadership therefore goes the credit for the first 'surgical strike'. He established key national and domestic security organizations like the Border Security Force and the Central Bureau of Investigation. In The Great Conciliator, Sanjeev Chopra draws on meticulous research to turn the spotlight on an often overlooked figure in Indian politics and makes a case for reassessing the legacy of India's unassuming second prime minister.
521			_aContents 1. Mughalsarai: Circa 1900 2. The Glamour of Pax Britannica 3. Benares, Harishchandra High School and Nishkameshwar Mishra 4 . Kashi Vidyapeeth: 1921-25 5. Servants of the People Society 6. Grihastha Ashram 7 . Allahabad 8. The Youngest General Secretary of UPPCC 9. Shastri as a Legislator 10. Lull Before the Storm: Individual Satyagraha and the Quit India Movement 11. The Quit India Movement 12. Parliamentary Secretary and Minister under G.B. Pant 13. New Delhi 14. The Helmsman of the Railways 15. Three Portfolios in Nehru's Third Ministry 16. India's Dangerous Decades 17. Dragon at the Doorstep 18. The Kamaraj Plan 19. Minister Without Portfolio 20. The End of Nehru's Era 21. Shastri's India Versus Ayub's Pakistan 22. Jai Kisan 23. The White Revolution and Shastri 24. The Difficult Reconciliation on Language 25. On the World Stage 26. Administrative Reforms and Institutional Innovations 27. No Confidence Motions 28. Rann of Kutch and the Formation of the BSF 29. Foiling the Infiltration 30. Towards Lahore 31. Chinese Checkers 32. Ceasefire: Shastri's Moral and Semantic Victory in the UNSC 33. The Finest Hour 34. The Tashkent Agreement 35. Tragedy follows Triumph
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